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Author Posocco, Silvia

Title Secrecy and insurgency : socialities and knowledge practices in Guatemala / Silvia Posocco
Published Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2013

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Contents The problem of context -- Violence, sovereignty, governmentality -- Secrecy, relation, connection -- Secrecy, sociality, merographic analogy -- Sociality, substance, moral order -- Secrecy, prosthetics, aesthetics
Summary "Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of contemporary theory, Silvia Posocco's Secrecy and Insurgency presents a vivid ethnographic account of secrecy as both sociality and a set of knowledge practices. Informed by multi-sited anthropological fieldwork among displaced communities with experiences of militancy in the guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, the book traces the contours of dispersed and intermittent guerrilla social relations, unraveling the gendered dimensions of guerrilla socialities and subjectivities in a local context marked by violence and rapid social change. The chapters chart shifting regimes of governance in the northern departamento of Peten; the inception of violence and insurgency; guerrilla practices of naming and secret relations; moral orders based on sameness and sharing; and forms of relatedness, embodiment, and subjectivity among the combatants. The volume develops new critical idioms for grappling with partiality, perspective, and incompleteness in ethnography and contributes to new thinking on the anthropology of Guatemala. Secrecy and Insurgency will be of interest to social and cultural anthropologists, human geographers, and those interested in Latin American studies, human rights, women's studies, and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher
"This title deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of contemporary theory, the author presents a vivid ethnographic account of secrecy as both sociality and a set of knowledge practices. Informed by multi-sited anthropological fieldwork among displaced communities with experiences of militancy in the guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, the book traces the contours of dispersed and intermittent guerrilla social relations, unraveling the gendered dimensions of guerrilla socialities and subjectivities in a local context marked by violence and rapid social change"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Guatemala)
SUBJECT Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Guatemala) fast
Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes Guatemala gnd
Subject Guerrillas -- Guatemala -- Social conditions
Secrecy -- Social aspects -- Guatemala
Ethnology -- Guatemala.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Ethnology
Peace
Kombattant
Gewalt
Geheimhaltung
Grundlage
Gruppenverhalten
Inter-Gruppenbeziehung
Nachkriegszeit
Guatemaltekischer Bürgerkrieg
SUBJECT Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996 -- Peace
Subject Guatemala
Petén
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 081738698X
9780817386986